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Aftershock
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part of JB Shorts Five
1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, Manchester Oct 2011
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15 min play
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Ballad Of Valentino Rivas, The
Synopsis:
The life and times of a musician, caught in the middle of someone else's battle.
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part of JB Shorts 11 an evening of six more bite-sized 15 minute World Premieres by Top TV Writers
1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, 106 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6Ng 01 Apr 2014
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15 min play
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Bombmaker, The
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A shadowy figure plants a bomb under a scientist's car, but which man is really the biggest threat?
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1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, 106 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6Ng 09 Oct 2012
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JB Shorts 8
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By Far The Greatest Team
Synopsis:
We're by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen. . . One City. Two Teams. In BY FAR THE GREATEST TEAM, four outstanding Mancunian writers explore what it is to be a football fan in four brand new plays. Told in a game of two halves, BY FAR THE GREATEST TEAM tells new stories about Manchester City, Manchester United, identity, community, belonging and asks why the beautiful game has such an impact on our lives, season after season.
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written by Ian Kershaw, Lindsay Williams, Andrew Sheridan and Sarah McDonald Hughes
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Monkeywood Theatre
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Play/Drama 90 min
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Dreamers
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It's the 90's and every weekend a group of young girls shake off the weekly grind with a messy night on the town. They don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too. It's Friday- they're in love. They never know where the evening will take them or who they'll wake up with the next morning, but one thing they do know is they'll end up in the smallest night club in the world with the biggest tunes -Dreamers. These girls don't care about the future, they have all they need right now, and it feels like it will go on forever. But of course life changes and twenty years on, those nights hold mixed memories to a scattered group of women who long to be the dreamers they once were and shake off the terrible hangover of the past. Dreamers is a musical with original songs plus 90's indie classics that tells the story of small town nights with big hearts. .
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Written by Cathy Crabb and Lindsay Williams, music by Carol Donaldson
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Genre:
musical
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Male: - Female: 8 Other: with doubling
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Hitched
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part of JB Shorts One
1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, Manchester 24 Mar 2009
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15 min play
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Outing, The
Synopsis:
On a trip to the seaside, Nellie meets retiree Frank. Is this a last chance of happiness, or will the ghosts of her past continue to haunt her?
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part of JB Shorts 14 an evening of Six More Fifteen Minute Plays by Top TV Writers
1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, 106 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6NG 03 Nov 2015
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short play
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Pop
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the festivals over, all that's left to do is pack up and go home, just one slight problem.
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part of JB Shorts
1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, Manchester 20 Mar 2012
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15 min play
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Quixotry
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This piece is set in a scrabble competition at the Rochdale and Littleborough Scrabble Society. the match is between a long standing aggressive male champion and a young Asian woman who puts up a strong challenge.
- Andrew Edwards, British theatre Guide
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Part of: JB Shorts 3 is the third in An ongoing series of short plays which take place in the Joshua Brooks pub in central Manchester. It Attracts top local Actors And writers, many of whom have cut their writing teeth in television And, in particular, in soap operas. This batch of six is made up of comedies of which some have A more Dramatic premise but All of which evoked much laughter from the packed cellar bar which has been transformed into A tiny playing Area. there is minimal staging but Adroit use of Appropriate props.
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Joshua Brooks Pub, Manchester Mar 2010
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short play
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Waiting For Gaga
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part of JB Shorts Four
1st Produced:
Joshua Brooks, Manchester Oct 2010
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15 min play
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